Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 15:53:15 -0800 From: "Crist J . Clark" <cristjc@earthlink.net> To: bind9 <bind9@citystamp.com> Cc: Bob Hall <rjhalljr@starpower.net>, FreeBSD <freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: The tower of Hanoi Message-ID: <20020123155315.K83184@blossom.cjclark.org> In-Reply-To: <B87440AD.2E10%bind9@citystamp.com>; from bind9@citystamp.com on Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 10:27:57AM -0500 References: <20020122160345.I77330@blossom.cjclark.org> <B87440AD.2E10%bind9@citystamp.com>
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On Wed, Jan 23, 2002 at 10:27:57AM -0500, bind9 wrote:
> on 1/22/02 7:03 PM, Crist J . Clark at cristjc@earthlink.net wrote:
[snip]
> > Like dump(8) says,
> >
> > dump [-0123456789acknu] [-B records] [-b blocksize] [-D dumpdates]
> > [-d density] [-f file] [-h level] [-s feet] [-T date] filesystem
>
> Ok. So I guess what I need is a quick lesson in "filesystem". Does that mean
> equate more to a mount point. On my system, /usr is a mount point for a disk
> device. /usr/local is a directory.
Then you can't dump /usr/local, it's not a filesystem. A "filesystem"
is either the name of the device holding the filesystem or the mount
point of the filesystem. It's any of the paths that shows up when you
type, 'mount -t ufs'.
--
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| cjclark@jhu.edu
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